Welcome aboard.
Your Vanderbilt journey starts here.
What you will be able to do
- Name the four beliefs that guide Vanderbilt’s mission.
- Explain how each core belief contributes to Vanderbilt’s culture and the employee experience.
- Apply the beliefs to real moments in your daily work.
- Explore ways to partner with colleagues to build strong working relationships and identify opportunities for collaboration.
- Identify the resources available to Vanderbilt employees that support connection, professional growth, collaboration, and career development.
- Plan the onboarding conversation with your manager that starts your development plan.
Start with a welcome from the Chancellor.
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Then explore: six stops, one voyage.
Tap each stop to preview it
Six short lessons, about thirty minutes. Tap a stop to see what’s there.
Define the great university of the 21st century, and be it.
Every role here moves this forward. Yours too.
- Know it.
- Connect your work to it.
- Talk about it with your manager.
How we operate: uncommon speed, agility, and scale
Tap each area of focus
One Vanderbilt, five cities.
We are not copying Nashville. Each city puts Vanderbilt where a field leads.
Tap a campus on the map
Tap a city to see why we are there.
Our growth, in the news.
What the press is saying as Vanderbilt grows beyond Nashville.
Watch 150 years of daring to grow.
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Then walk the timeline, one moment at a time.
Visit every moment
The full historyMeet your leaders.
An internationally renowned scholar of political science and managerial leadership. Born in Berlin, a first-generation college graduate, and before Vanderbilt, provost of the University of Chicago.
More about the Chancellor
- Before Vanderbilt: provost and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a longtime professor at Stanford and at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
- Chosen by the Vanderbilt Board of Trust after an extensive worldwide search.
- In his first years: guided Vanderbilt through the COVID-19 pandemic, and launched Destination Vanderbilt, to recruit renowned faculty, and the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy.
- Since: research passes $1 billion, the Vandy United campaign for student-athletes, and a commitment to free expression and civil discourse.
Fact or fiction? Four statements
The leadership team: who leads what.
Meet the VC’s- Academic AffairsThe Provost
- Communications and Marketing
- Government and Community Relations
- Investments
- Athletics and University Affairs
- Development and Alumni Relations
- Operations and the Campus Network
- Real Estate, Facilities, and Development
- People, Culture and BelongingThe team behind this course
- Vanderbilt Enterprises
- General Counsel and University Secretary
Vanderbilt by the numbers.
Guess first. The surprise is what sticks.
Tap a tile, make your guess
Go find the numbers.
Open Quick Facts, find eight numbers, and fill in the board.
Launch Vanderbilt Quick Facts
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Four beliefs, one Vanderbilt Way.
Tap each point, then try its moment
They guide how we learn, serve, and work together. Tap a point on the compass.
Which belief points your way?
Four quick questions. No wrong answers.
The needle moves as you answer.
Pick the answer most like you
Crescere aude
A motto, and a mindset.
Video coming soon
- Grow your mindset
- Use what’s here
- Grow together
Three moments. What would you do?
Five questions.
Four of five to pass
0 of 5 answered.
Your next four moves.
Tap each one to commit
“I just finished Vanderbilt Voyage Online. The belief I align with most is [belief]. Can we talk about it, and about my development plan, in our next one-on-one?”
In Nashville? Join the in-person Voyage, a campus tour, or lunch. pcb@vanderbilt.edu